They say true freedom arrives when all the kids are gone and the dog dies. With his family grown and his husband, Zack, having decided to become a middle-aged cliché and marry his secretary, Chris Thayer is about to discover that starting life again at 48 is just as complicated, frustrating and thrilling as the first time around.

The weekend after Thanksgiving, Chris Thayer finds himself packing up the last odds and ends of his quietly extraordinary life. After twenty-two years of gay marriage to Zack Rowan - and after raising widowed Zack's three kids as his own - Chris is suddenly single. What a middle-aged gay divorcé to do?

Chris decides to take the venerable family dog and his ex-husband's guilt money to Salter Path on North Carolina's Outer Banks. As Chris settles into his new life - finding a new job, re-establishing his faith, finding unexpected companionship - he realises he cannot easily forget, much less leave behind, the people of his past.

In Back Where he Started. Jay Quinn offers a portrait of a man who rediscovers passion at an unexpected time in his life and learns to define himself by not just who he once was, but who he has now become.